Inflation should push Fed in more accommodative fashion -Bullard

Reuters Staff

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JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming, July 12 (Reuters) - A top Federal Reserve official said on Friday he was “not keen” to allow U.S. inflation to drift lower than the current 1 percent level, adding that was “not the end of the world” but “at the edge” of where it should be.

St. Louis Fed President James Bullard, speaking at an economics conference, said he did not want inflation measured by the Personal Consumption Expenditures price index to drift into the zero-to-1-percent range.

“Inflation should push us in a more accommodative fashion,” Bullard said.

Philadelphia Fed President Charles Plosser, speaking on the same panel, said the U.S. central bank should defend that target from both “high and low” sides.